It's Good to Be Alive (film)
It's Good to Be Alive is a 1974 American television film about baseball player Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers.[1] It was first aired on CBS on 22 February 1974.[2] Based in part on his 1960 autobiography of the same name, it explores his role in integrating baseball, his own professional rise, and the physical and emotional work of recovery he had to undergo after the devastating 1958 auto accident that left him paralyzed from the shoulders down.
| It's Good to Be Alive | |
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| Directed by | Michael Landon |
| Starring | Paul Winfield Louis Gossett Jr. |
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Running time | 1h 40min |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Cast
- Paul Winfield - Roy Campanella
- Louis Gossett Jr. - Sam Brockington, his physical therapist
- Ruby Dee - Ruthe Campanella, his wife
- Ramon Bieri - Walter O'Malley
- Joe De Santis - Roy Campanella's father
- Ty Henderson - David Campanella
- Ketty Lester - Roy Campanella's mother
- Julian Burton - Dr. Rusk
- Lloyd Gough - Surgeon
- Eric Woods - Roy Campanella as a Boy
- Len Lesser - Man at Accident
References
- Robert Niemi (2006). History in the Media: Film and Television. ABC-CLIO. pp. 180–181. ISBN 978-1-57607-952-2.
- K Edgington; Thomas Erskine; James M. Welsh (29 December 2010). Encyclopedia of Sports Films. Scarecrow Press. p. 507. ISBN 978-0-8108-7653-8.
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